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What is Dilation

Handbook of Research on Computational Intelligence for Engineering, Science, and Business
One of the basic operators in the area of mathematical morphology. It is typically applied to binary images. The basic effect of the operator on a binary image is to gradually enlarge the boundaries of regions of foreground pixels (i.e. white pixels, typically). Thus areas of foreground pixels grow in size while holes within those regions become smaller.
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Computer Intelligence in Healthcare
Pramit Ghosh (RCC Institute of Information Technology, India), Debotosh Bhattacharjee (Jadavpur University, India), Mita Nasipuri (Jadavpur University, India), and Dipak Kumar Basu (Jadavpur University, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2518-1.ch028
Abstract
Low cost solutions for the development of intelligent bio-medical devices that not only assist people to live in a better way but also assist physicians for better diagnosis are presented in this chapter. Two such devices are discussed here, which are helpful for prevention and diagnosis of diseases. Statistical analysis reveals that cold and fever are the main culprits for the loss of man-hours throughout the world, and early pathological investigation can reduce the vulnerability of disease and the sick period. To reduce this cold and fever problem a household cooling system controller, which is adaptive and intelligent in nature, is designed. It is able to control the speed of a household cooling fan or an air conditioner based on the real time data, namely room temperature, humidity, and time for which system is active, which are collected from environment. To control the speed in an adaptive and intelligent manner, an associative memory neural network (Kramer) has been used. This embedded system is able to learn from training set; i.e., the user can teach the system about his/her feelings through training data sets. When the system starts up, it allows the fan to run freely at full speed, and after certain interval, it takes the environmental parameters like room temperature, humidity, and time as inputs. After that, the system takes the decision and controls the speed of the fan.
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The basic effect of the operator on a binary image is to gradually enlarge the boundaries of regions of foreground pixels (i.e. white pixels, typically). Thus areas of foreground pixels grow in size while holes within those regions become smaller.
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Computer Vision for Wave Flume Experiments
The dilation of an image by a structuring element ‘Y’ is defined as the maximum value of all the pixels situated under the structuring element The basic effect of this morphological operator the operator on a binary image is to gradually enlarge the boundaries of regions of foreground pixels (i.e. white pixels, typically). Thus areas of foreground pixels grow in size while holes within those regions become smaller.
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